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Quotes by Psychologist
"Though all afflictions are evils in themselves, yet they are good for us, because they discover to us our disease and tend to our cure."
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"Formation of a new race takes place when, over several generations, individuals in one group reproduce more frequently among themselves than they do with individuals in other groups."
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"We don't focus as much in schools on educational knowledge which requires thinking and application, as we do on acquiring facts."
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"Education is the process in which we discover that learning adds quality to our lives. Learning must be experienced."
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"Interestingly, the best way to promote intimacy is to demand it."
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"The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination."
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"Mental events, it is said, are not passive happenings but the acts of a subject."
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"We cannot say that if a child is badly nourished he will become a criminal. We must see what conclusion the child has drawn."
Will,
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"We each have a personal myth, a vision of who we really are and what we want. Health means that part of what you want is to give to others."
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"Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics."
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"Sex lies at the root of life, and we can never learn to reverence life until we know how to understand sex."
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"Everything becomes so problematic because of basic faults: from a discontent with myself."
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"In some instances, the accuracy of past-life memories can be objectively verified, sometimes with remarkable detail."
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"To all those who walk the path of human cooperation war must appear loathsome and inhuman."
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"Every individual acts and suffers in accordance with his peculiar teleology, which has all the inevitability of fate, so long as he does not understand it."
Fate,
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"Every therapeutic cure, and still more, any awkward attempt to show the patient the truth, tears him from the cradle of his freedom from responsibility and must therefore reckon with the most vehement resistance."
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"I say to people who care for people who are dying, if you really love that person and want to help them, be with them when their end comes close. Sit with them - you don't even have to talk. You don't have to do anything but really be there with them."
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"The State in particular is turned into a quasi-animate personality from whom everything is expected. In reality it is only a camouflage for those individuals who know how to manipulate it."
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"Whatever is rejected from the self, appears in the world as an event."
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"Things you create with your mind are always part of your postmortal life, whether they seem real or not."
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"Most intellectual people do not believe in God, but they fear him just the same."
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"If the truth contradicts deeply held beliefs, that is too bad."
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"Why should anyone be so grateful for acceptance unless he doubts that he is acceptable, and why should a young, educated and successful couple have such doubts, if not due to the fact that they cannot accept themselves because they are not themselves."
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"Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself."
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"Watching a peaceful death of a human being reminds us of a falling star; one of a million lights in a vast sky that flares up for a brief moment only to disappear into the endless night forever."
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"It is easier to do one's duty to others than to one's self. If you do your duty to others, you are considered reliable. If you do your duty to yourself, you are considered selfish."
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"To transcend nature, to be alienated from nature and from another human being, finds man naked, ashamed. He is alone and free, yet powerless and afraid."
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"I don't have the feeling that as a very young person I read books that absolutely made their mark on my mind."
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"For those of you out there today who have already been through hard times and are desperate for a word of encouragement, let me assure you that you can trust this Lord of heaven and earth. Remember that Scripture warns us to "lean not on your own understanding (Proverbs 3:5)."
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"We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses."
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"I am not in this world to live up to other people's expectations, nor do I feel that the world must live up to mine."
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"There is a profound difference between information and meaning."
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"I am not a Sunday morning inside four wallswith clean bloodand organized drawers.I am the hurricane setting fire to the forestsat night when no one else is aliveor awakehowever you choose to see itand I live in my own flamessometimes burning too bright and too wildto make things lastor handlemyself or anyone elseand so I run.run run runfar and wideuntil my bones ache and lungs splitand it feels good.Hear that people? It feels goodbecause I am the slave and ruler of my own bodyand I wish to do with it exactly as I please."
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"We have many cases of men committing suicide rather than face their own individuality. I know of no case of a woman who committed suicide because she was gay."
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"But the rule seems to be that the bigger and more life-changing the decision, the less it will seem like a decision at all."
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"In order to succeed, people need a sense of self-efficacy, to struggle together with resilience to meet the inevitable obstacles and inequities of life."
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"We need creativity in order to break free from the temporary structures that have been set up by a particular sequence of experience."
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"In his fight against the powers of the surrounding world his first weapon was magic, the first forerunner of our modern technology. We suppose that this confidence in magic is derived from the over-estimation of the individual's own intellectual operations, from the belief in the 'omnipotence of thoughts', which, incidentally, we come across again in our obsessional neurotics."
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"I am very proud of being the one to have coined the word."
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"Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult."
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"Tact and diplomacy are fine in international relations, in politics, perhaps even in business; in science only one thing matters, and that is the facts."
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"From the described experiment it is clear that the mere act of eating, the food even not reaching the stomach, determines the stimulation of the gastric glands."
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"The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men."
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"Intellectual comradeship requires that you think your thoughts through to the place where you can make the complex seem simple, the obscure quite clear."
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"I have taken part in ceremonies with North American and Mexican shamans, as well as Brazilian ceremonies."
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"I think people need to recognize that those of us who have been so much influenced by violence in the media- in particular pornographic violence- are not some kinds of inherent monsters. We are your sons, and we are your husbands. And we grew up in regular families."
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"I didn't grow up with any concept of people being deviants unless they mistreated others."
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